Chapter 66

Grace was stunned. She had not been expecting the place where she met Jay to be the place where her father had passed away.

“I’m so sorry,” she said.

“He only had himself to blame for dying.” He shrugged. “Sister, there is no need for you to apologize,” Jason said in a low voice.

She suspected the story was not so simple as Jay depicted it. ‘He only had himself to blame?’ that sounded ominous. Grace was surprised. She hadn’t been expecting him to describe his father’s death that way.

“Jay, I’m not sure what you man by blaming him, perhaps it was some accident-”

“Was it? I don’t think so. He fell in love with someone he shouldn’t have fallen in love with, then when she discovered that he was useless, he was cast aside. It didn’t matter even if he kneeled down and begged. No,” Jason’s eyes darkened into an abyss. “No, that’s not entirely true. The more he groveled and begged, the more she despised him.” He shook his head as if clearing the thoughts. “In the end, he died in despair and had frozen to death in the snow.”

Jason’s expression was as indifferent as if he was just talking about something as ordinary as the weather-not a man succumbing to hypothermia and dying in it. Even his voice was

as calm as usual. But… this was his father!

as if he had returned to

been distant then too. And…

called out to him.

dark pupils. “Tell me,” he goaded her. “Did he not

throat dry up as she tried to respond. After a long while, she finally murmured, “Is that woman your mother?”

There was no expression on his face, but there was a flash of pain in

knew the answer.

this moment any words she could provide would be useless. There were some wounds in the world that

up and hugged him as he stayed

was leaning against her chest, his nose was inhaling her breath, and her warmth was

sound of her heartbeat came into his ears through her clothes.

him feel like… staying

“Mom, don’t go…”

on the ground, hoping that the woman,

leaving and did not even

about to leave, the boy wanted

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